r/comics • u/tabithajaneart • 3d ago

OC 2026 vs 1886 [OC]

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Great-great-great Grandma was serving

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u/Vospader998 3d ago

All the Yankees kept calling it "macaroni" for some reason and spoiled it for everyone else

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u/Kennedy_KD 3d ago

That's because Macaroni meant "fashionable" at the time period so the song is about an American dressing up in shitty counterfeit luxury clothes and acting like he's dressed in high fashion

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u/blankcld 3d ago

What is more American than adopting a song without understanding the lyrics and making it your personal anthem? Like Trump playing fortunate son at his klan rallies

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u/mellopax 3d ago

Assuming they didn't understand it instead of "they made a song to mock us, so fuck em, let's lean into it" is certainly one way to interpret that situation. Not the right one, but it is one.